Dr. Sofia Botsi is an atomic physics researcher supporting the Cold Atom Lab mission onboard the ISS. She’s leading the ground-based demonstration of optically trapping ultracold quantum gases that could be delivered as a technology maturation addition to a future resupply of the science instrument in orbit. Her research interests include precision measurements, quantum simulations, and quantum computations with ultracold atomic and molecular gases. She joined the Cold Atom Lab team as a JPL Postdoc in 2023 after receiving her Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, and her M.Sc. from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear physics at Heidelberg University.

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1. J. R. Williams, Ch. A. Sackett, H. Ahlers, D. C. Aveline, P. Boegel, S. Botsi et al., Pathfinder Experiments with Atom Interferometry in the Cold Atom Lab onboard the International Space Station, Nat. Commun. 15, 6414 (2024)
2. E. R. Elliott, D. C. Aveline, N. P. Bigelow, P. Boegel, S. Botsi et al., Quantum gas mixtures and dual-species atom interferometry in space, Nature 623, 502-508 (2023)
3. S. Botsi et al., Empirical LiK excited state potentials: connecting short range and near dissociation expansions, PCCP 24, 3933-3940 (2022)
4. A. Yang, S. Botsi et al., Singlet Pathway to the Ground State of Ultracold Polar Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 133203 (2020)